Sound Gallery - Common Poorwill

A common poorwill surveys its surroundings from its ground nest.

© Ken-ichi Ueda, Flickr Creative Commons

• Common Poorwill

  
  

  Sound recording of common poorwill, Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

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  Audio Transcript

  The high-pitched call of a common poorwill that resembling a repeated whistling "poorwillip" sound.

Spectrogram of Common Poorwill

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